期刊
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
卷 159, 期 -, 页码 37-49出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.03.024
关键词
dissolved organic matter; fjords; fluorescence; stable isotopes; particulate organic matter
资金
- Otago University, New Zealand
- FIU College of Arts and Sciences
- NSF-OISE [0645301]
- NSF-DEB [1127962]
- FIU
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24681002, 24121003] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1127962] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of The Director
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering [0645301] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Annually, rivers and inland water systems deliver a significant amount of terrestrial organic matter (OM) to the adjacent coastal ocean in both particulate and dissolved forms; however, the metabolic and biogeochemical transformations of OM during its seaward transport remains one of the least understood components of the global carbon cycle. This transfer of terrestrial carbon to marine ecosystems is crucial in maintaining trophic dynamics in coastal areas and critical in global carbon cycling. Although coastal regions have been proposed as important sinks for exported terrestrial materials, most of the global carbon cycling data, have not included fjords in their budgets. Here we present distributional patterns on the quantity and quality of dissolved OM in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Specifically, we describe carbon dynamics under diverse environmental settings based on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) depth profiles, oxygen concentrations, optical properties (fluorescence) and stable carbon isotopes. We illustrate a distinct change in the character of DOC in deep waters compared to surface and mid-depth waters. Our results suggest that, both, microbial reworking of terrestrially derived plant detritus and subsequent desorption of DOC from its particulate counterpart (as verified in a desorption experiment) are the main sources of the humic-like enriched DOC in the deep basins of the studied fjords. While it has been suggested that short transit times and protection of OM by mineral sorption may ultimately result in significant terrestrial carbon burial and preservation in fjords, our data suggests the existence of an additional source of terrestrial OM in the form of DOC generated in deep, fjord water. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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